Improved boot-blacking machine



' Stimmt MAR'IIN BURNELL'7 OF A'RUNDEL, ENGLAND.

Letters Patent No. 89,552, lated May 4, 1869.

IMPROVE!) Boor-B LAcxING MACHINE.

I The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom 'it may concern e it known that I, MARTIN BURNELL, of Arundel, in the county of Sussex, England, have invented a new and improved Machine for Blacking Boots and Cleaning Knives and I do hereby declare thatthe following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings making part of this specification.

My invention relates to a machine composed essentially of a horizontal shaft provided with a series of revolving brushes or wheels for tbc above purposes.

It consists in the construction and arrangement of a blackiug-reservoir, valve, and spout, with a distributing-brnsh and blacking-wheel, in the special manner hereinafter set forth.

In the drawingsv Figure I is a transverse vertical section,

Figure II a front elevation,

Figure III a horizontal section of the blacking-cup or reservoir.

Like letters of reference designate like parts in each of the figures.

A A are two standards of any suitable construction.

B, a horizontal shaft having its bearings supported therein. v

C, a bui` or emery-Wheel for cleaning and polishing cutlery.

D, a brush-wheel for cleaning the boots and shoes preparatory to blacking them. l

F is the blacking-Wheel which receives liquid blacling from the reservoir G.

E is a brush polishing-wheel.

H is a crank-shaft having its bearings formed in the standards A;

I is a treadle, and J, a connecting-rod which gives motion to this crank-shaft.

L is a tly-wheel, and M, a driving-wheel mounted on -said shaft.

N is a belt connecting the driving-wheel with a pulley O on the shaft B, by Which the latter receives its motion.

P is a wooden shelf underneath the shaft B for holding the cutlery as itY is being cleaned. It also forms a rest for the boots and' shoes while they are being cleaned and polished, and a support for the standard to which the blacking-reservoir G is secured.

This reservoir G may be made of tin of sufficient capacity to hold a suitable supply of liquid blacking. The blacking is permitted to flow through a small opening/r in the bottom into a spout t, which conducts it on to a distributing-brush s, which is arranged in contact with the blacking-wheel F, and uniformlyl distributes the blacking over the latter as it revolves. The tlow of' the blacking is` regulated and shut ol by means of a cover or disk-valve T, fitting in the bottom of the reservoir, with anotch u ont out of one edge to permit the escape ot the blacking when this .notch is contiguoustothe hole was shown in Fig. III.

lwith the blacking, which is esseutial'to the practical working of the machine.

The boot or shoe being successively subjected to the action of the wheels D E F, is cleaned, blacked, and

polished in the shortest period of time, the arrangement of the wheels being such as to enable the boot to be handled with great facility, so vas to bring such portions of it as may be required under the operation ofthe wheels. r

lhe burnisbing-wheel o operates with cqualeiciency in cleaning cutlery, the shelf P performing the' ofiices before specified.

The reservoir G is made adjustable on its support to and from the blacking-wheel as may be required,

v I am well aware that a distributing-device, composed of a reservoir, valve, and spout, is used with a handbrush, and thereire do not claim the same; but

\Vhat I claim as my invention andv desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The construct-ion and arrangement of the blackingreservoir G, valve T, and spout t, with the distribating-brush s, and blacking-wheel F as a whole, opera-l ting as set forth. Witnesses:

J AY HYATT, I. N. BLAKE.

MARTIN BURNELL. 

